You may go without a shower for a week, skip brushing your teeth for a month, and be unable to clean your home for an entire week, but could you ever bring yourself to use a deodorant made from the paste of rotten eggs? Isn't that dirty? You may think it's "unhygienic at its worst," but it is what it is. It's impossible to imagine surviving the ancient Egyptians' unsanitary conditions. Stay tuned as in just a few minutes we will expose the dirtiest practices of ancient Egyptians.

At a time when women were seen as objects and didn't have much freedom, the Egyptians were different from other societies because educated women could study any subject they wanted. Neurosurgery was the main field that women doctors went into, and this field in particular used a lot of strange mixtures that are both interesting and hard to explain. For example, the Egyptians used barley and emmer to make the first known pregnancy test (wheat).